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Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:21:42 PST

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    Christopher Unkel writes:
    > > Use eval(), as Andy pointed out.
    >
    > Using eval() for this allows the supposed "literal" to do things like
    > call verbs, built-ins, etc., no matter how it is passed into eval.

    True, but minor in my experience.  Anyhow, the lack of something like
    `fromliteral()' is not a bug and it's not a five-minute feature add, so I won't
    be adding it.  At the risk of sounding like a broken record, maybe the next
    maintainer...

    	Pavel